Hey everyone! So I have admitted to myself that I chose the wrong university…I think I would have loved to go to UC Berkeley much better than my decision of UCLA. UC Berkeley has a specific program that I am interested in, and I just like the vibe much better. I was just wondering if anyone knows the soonest time I can transfer; if it’s even possible to do so in the spring semester (and what I would do to make that happen). Thank you so much!
UCs and most CSUs are only open for transfers at the junior level (60 semester or 90 quarter units completed by the time of transfer).
The above is correct. You won’t be able to transfer there until Sept 2017. And, even that, may be difficult since they seem more obligated to accept CC TAG transfers.
What is the program? Is it possible that UCLA offers some analogue?
You posted several threads in early May, one debating Pomona vs. Berkeley and one asking if it was too late to change your SIR from Berkeley to UCLA. Evidently you did change your SIR from Berkeley to UCLA and now you are already regretting it? Also it seems from your prior threads that your brother is at Berkeley and your family is near there. It seems to me that you are just going through a normal freshman case of nervousness about the adjustment to college. I suggest you give UCLA a chance and keep an open mind. It’s too soon to decide you made a mistake. You had 3 great choices, you made a choice, now stop looking in the rear view mirror. You’re at a great school.
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UC Berkeley has a specific program that I am interested in,
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What special program?
And do you have to start in it as a frosh or as a CC transfer?
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What vibe? and how would you know?
Looking at your past posts, you sound like a Nervous Nellie, which is understandable for a college-bound kid.
First you SIR’d Berkeley, then SIR’d UCLA, then wondered if you should go to Pomona…back and forth, back and forth.
You also wrote this about UCB
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feel unsafe whenever I visit, feel like I fit in there less (not sure if I would get used to this: can anyone speak on this?) >>>
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you also wrote the below after you first SIR’d UCB
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I would like to go to UCLA. After visiting Berkeley today, I'm sure I made the wrong decision. Is there anything I can do to try to SIR to UCLA? Has anyone else been in this position? <<<
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you’re a bio major…what is this special program at UCB??
Well, the bottom line is…you’ll be going to UCLA. Go there with an open mind. You can’t transfer to UCB for 2 years, so at that point it would be dumb to try.
What is your career goal??
Also, please make an appt with your doctor soon and discuss with him/her that you may have anxiety issues. You’ll want to get those dealt with before you go to college, if they exist.
Just realized classes don’t even start at UCLA until 9/24. The OP keeps second guessing himself/herself.
Fall of next year. What you do is cancel your admission to UCLA (see http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/withdrawal_regulation.html) and then apply again. You got in this year, odds are you get in again.
Before you do this check with Cal to make sure you will qualify to apply as a frosh, but my guess is that if you have never attended ucla, not even for 1 day, they will still consider you a frosh.
During the year off do not take any classes at a CC or elsewhere, not even to audit, because if you attend any college after HS (except for the summer after graduation) you will need to apply as a junior xfer. And don’t think of doing it and not reporting it; there is a national database that tracks college enrollments.
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Fall of next year. What you do is cancel your admission to UCLA (see http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/counseling/withdrawal_regulation.html) and then apply again. You got in this year, odds are you get in again.
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odds are …
Well, I would think that since he/she didn’t have a good reason for all of this back and forth, the odds are that UCB and UCLA might reject him if he reapplied. S/he’s jerked them both around.
A bird in the hand…(should not be tossed back and forth)